Thermical Mass

introduction

For most beginners, this is without doubt a subject to be explored and so is this article even here, taking also into account that the newbies often ask what good thermal mass, or when it is applied and why.


Which one to choose?

There are currently various brands of thermal mass starting with the most well known of the Arctic Silver which has different types of thermal mass each with a slightly different composition, to Cooler as marks, OCZ among others. The choice of the thermal mass should be made as appropriate. If for example you want to use thermal paste in memory or in some chip that has no mounting holes, must choose between one of the folders and thermal adhesive preferably opt for a non-conductive paste, lest any chance of placing. If you want thermal mass to the CPU, you can either opt for conductive and non conductive mass, but agree to have some aspects in mind such as the fact that AMD void the warranty on your cpu used when a conductive thermal mass. If you want a thermal mass for the gpu of your graphics then use a mass preferably non-conductive but good quality.

Avoid at all costs to use that white thermal mass, which usually comes with the fans, given that mass is of poor quality. Overclocking In more worth spending some money on a good thermal mass that want to save at all costs, due to the need to dissipate existing.


What is?

Any metal surface is uneven to a certain scale that does not need to know and one of the objectives of the thermal mass is to eliminate the most of these micro irregularities. The other cause is of course there is greater contact between the base surface of the cooler and the CPU, which is only achieved by using a thin layer of a thermally conductive component, in this specific case we speak of thermal mass.

When should it be used?

When mounting a heatsink, this cooler is for memories, for the Northbridge, Chips, CPU, GPU and the like. When not using thermal mass, more specifically the GPU and CPU is running a relatively high risk of burning your component in question and all is not what we want. If you care to choose a good thermal mass can earn about 5 ° temperature at full load compared to the thermal masses of inferior quality.


The thermal mass to have an overall performance must be applied in very thin bed, recommended by manufacturers of thermal mass is anything to 1 mm (roughly the thickness of a sheet of paper). The fact that weight loading in excess will cause the cooler pressure exerted to move the mass and do create irregularities in its application. This is valid for any component or CPU, the only difference to be applied for example in a thermal P4 or an AMD is the fact that in the P4 core Tues Hetspreader which facilitates the application of mass, while the lack heatspreader amd so that the pulp has to be applied directly to the CPU core. 


Note: Allways clean the cooler and the CPU before aplying

Aplying the thermal mass: 

The thermal mass to have an overall performance must be applied to a bed rather The best way to apply the thermal mass is pour some of the same one end of the core or heatspreader and then spreads it with a blade, but when they have more experience can pour the batter in the center which will have no difficulty in spreading it. To know if you apply the right amount of mass must (when you have mass spread around the cpu) for making a little more pressure to feel the blade touching the cpu obviously should not push for that to happen constantly , but must pass the blade slightly so that it is only a thin layer.


To spread the batter can for example use an x-acto blade of a departure to some extent, will spread as in the previous image, if they have mass in excess will apply the cleaning blade to remove the excess.

In the case of the mass to be conductive and even not being one must be careful when making the application so as not to put weight in non-payable. Before making the application must clear the cpu core or Heatspeader with acetone to remove the mass before or other impurities. A finger mark or a bit of dust in the place where they will be applied to mass can affect the final result.

It should also clean the bottom of the cooler, even with acetone or sanding water and acetone, and applying a small amount of mass.


Then clean up the base of the cooler with a cloth that leaves no unwanted particles in a straight circular

The purpose of this step is to improve the surface of the cooler, because as everyone knows the surface of whatever is seen in the microscope is imperfect and this method is the thermal mass housing on the micro-cooler failures making the surface more perfect and consequently perform better with the CPU.